African Journal of
Biotechnology

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Biotechnol.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1684-5315
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJB
  • Start Year: 2002
  • Published Articles: 12486

Full Length Research Paper

Flavonoids and volatiles in Chrysanthemum morifolium Ramat flower from Tongxiang County in China

Qing-Lei Sun1, Shu Hua1, Jian-Hui Ye1, Xin-Qiang Zheng2 and Yue-Rong Liang1*
  1Zhejiang University Tea Research Institute, Hangzhou 310029, PR China. 2Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plants Growth, Development and Biotechnology, the Agricultural Ministry of China, Hangzhou 310029, PR China.
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  •  Accepted: 05 May 2010
  •  Published: 21 June 2010

Abstract

 

Flavonoids and volatiles in a traditional herbal medicine Chrysanthemum morifoliumRamat flower were determined by HPLC and GC/MS, respectively. Eight flavonoids and fifty eight volatiles were identified. Luteolin-7-glucoside and quercitrin were the most abundant flavonoids and they amounted for 85.7% of the total detected flavonoids. Β-Humulene was the most abundant volatile and ledene oxide-(I) the next abundant one and the two volatiles were 16.3 and 9.0% of total volatiles, respectively. The bioactivities of the partial components in C. morifolium Ramat flower were discussed. It is considered that the health benefits of C. morifoliumRamat might be related to its abundant flavonoids and volatiles.

 

Key words: Chrysanthemum morifolium, herbal medicine, chemical composition, high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), gas chromatography tandem with mass spectrometer (GC-MS).

Abbreviation

HPLC, High performance liquid chromatography; GC-MS, gas chromatography tandem with mass spectrometer; SDE, successive distillation extraction; MAPK, 

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